Why so much hype?

Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

That was an excellent one.

Boring

The typical catastrophe scenario:1. Scienetists find out that the world will be destroyed.2. The VIP objects, because they will not want to be no VIP no more.3. Incarcerate all scientists and journalists to prevent them from telling the "people".4. Add a few side kicks, like a murderer/rapist escaping, and then his final capture/death (since the concept of the planet Earth going down the drains obviously isn't exciting enough).Heck, I don't know where to start with all the goofs in this shite. Suffice to say that Tina Carrera spends almost half the movie to get to St. Louis in various right-hand drive vehicles driving on the left side of roads with all white line markings. Where do they have that with a St. Louis within driving distance?And no, there'll never be a supernova in this solar system. When our sun runs out of fuel some 7-8 milliard (billion to those who doesn't know the proper maths notation) years ago, it'll simply grow bigger for some 100 million years, and then swallow all the small planets inside of Mars, and after that it'll turn into a silent star that will not be noticed anymore.If only they had named the movie Solar Flares, it might have gotten another star from me.

****SPOILER ALERT!******SPOILER ALERT!!!!!*******I WILL REVEAL THE ENDING!!!!******I WILL REVEAL THE ENDING!!!!****** I've had this thing for about 2 years but could never bring myself to watch it. I knew what I was getting into when I read the description. When I saw the words "Sun" and "Supernova" together, it was obvious that the story was written by a high school drop out. But it doesn't stop there...add to that a subplot that includes an escaped serial killer and man...then the horrible acting, horrible accents, horrible effects...This is quite possibly the worst movie ever made.It seems that an "Astrophysicist" discovers that the Sun is much older than previously thought. Like this alone changes the mass to the point that the Sun could "supernova". And during this time of great discovery, an asteroid hit the Sun. Yeah, an asteroid. I guess this was some form of foreshadowing but they never tied it in to why the sun keeps belting out CMEs directly at Earth.Now for the lamest scene in movie history: Said astrophysicist was hiding out on a beach in a shack. And the "solar fireballs" that seem to pin point major cities...yep, scored a direct hit on his shack. And to add to the insult against viewers, this was right after he finally found true love.****SPOILER HERE!!!!!******ENDING REVEALED!!!***** I'm going to spoil the ending. Luke Perry pours over the calculations and finds out that the original equations of the now dead astrophysicist were wrong. He had a plus sign where it should have been a minus sign. (NO, REALLY ITS IN THE MOVIE!) And now that the Sun has been put back into its proper place by the correct mathematical operator...its time to finish the random serial killer story (who all this time had done nothing but walk around looking evil and riding a stolen motorcycle). Long story short. Luke Perry's wife kills him. The end.

This is possibly the worst movie made in the last decade. Some movies I realise are deliberately bad in order to attract a following as a cult movie or similar, but this one gives the impression it was intended as a serious movie. It is awful. I endured over 2 1/2 hours of this just to see if it could get any worse. In the end I was unable to bring myself to watch any more. Everything about it is awful. And if you are an Australian it is doubly bad because it they blamed it on us! It is so full of geographic, not to mention scientific, biological, theological, geological, ecological any everything else-logical errors I was left dumbfounded - and it goes on and on seemingly forever, having you look forward to the ad breaks. How anyone can escape from a prison in Pretoria (South Africa) and get to Sydney (Australia) in just a few hours by car beggars belief. It is total rubbish from start to finish. And even the special effects look like they were done using a freeware software package!Watch 30 minutes or so just to see how bad it is, but for the sake of your sanity, please do not watch the whole movie...

The sun is about to go supernova, and everyone on Earth will die. Sounds exciting right? Uh, not really. The plot starts when a brilliant astrophysicist (Peter Fonda) makes calculations showing that the sun will explode in one week. But the government doesn't want anybody to know, so they capture several other astrophysicists who know about the disaster, including a guy who just wants to get back to his family (Luke Perry). Taken into custody by a government agent (Tia Carrere) and a military commander (Lanice Henriksen), he has to find some way to get back to his family before a serial killer escapes and gets to his wife and daughter. Meanwhile, the world goes to hell in a hand-basket as whole cities and rural areas get bombarded by plasma. Oh yeah, and something about a television reporter and a lab assistant who's worried about her boyfriend. The first problem with this movie is that it is a made-for-television miniseries for the Hallmark Channel. That isn't automatically a recipe for disaster, but made-for-TV movies have gone downhill in the past few years. The fact that it's a miniseries is surprising. At most, this should have been a two hour Sci-Fi original movie. Yet making it a two part movie means that the producers have to fill out 3 hours of material. The result is a movie that feels padded with way too many characters and subplots. The second problem is the acting. Luke Perry is the main character, but he does little with it. He has the same expression and tone of voice the entire movie. It feels forced when he's trying to be morally superior to the military forces he's with. Tia Carrere is a little better as the government agent, but she still comes across as one-note and clichéd. And this is Peter Frigging Fonda for crying out loud. Can't you get him to do something other than blurt out some scientific gobbledygook and sip pina colladas? The plot goes nowhere. The first half of the movie is nothing but people talking, talking, talking, talking, and talking. And in between the talking you get a pointless chase scene, a ludicrous escape attempt from one of the "Phoenix" facilities, a blink-and-you'll-miss-it (literally) destruction of the Eiffel Tower, and several minor explosions. There are a few good scenes at the end of the first half. The serial killer plot thread finally develops (in one of the most absurd scenes of the movie it's almost funny), Luke Perry finds himself in a bit of a Twilight Zone situation, and we finally get to see some big explosions as a major city is destroyed. Still, you have to wait an hour and a half for any of this. The second half isn't much better. One of the more compelling scenes involves people checking their math. I kid you not.Probably the worst part of this movie is the central premise. You can't stop a supernova, and you can't escape it. There are two possibilities: the sun explodes and kills everybody or it doesn't. So where does the tension come from? Answer: The many subplots the characters are involved in. For all of the flaws of "Armageddon", at least the people involved can do something about the problem. "Hey, maybe we can chuck a nuclear bomb into an asteroid," is much more compelling than "Hey, maybe we got the calculations wrong."Simply avoid this movie, unless you happen to come across it and you have nothing better to do, like watching "Lake Placid 2".